15 Articles match "2005","Help","Real Estate"

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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 112,210 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August, and a 63 percent increase from September 2005. The next big wave of news may be a true real-estate slump, as hundreds of billions in adjustable-rate mortgages reset, making it even more difficult for homeowners in depressed markets to meet higher monthly payments. Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Thanksgiving a Time to Reflect . . . on Foreclosures Too!
  
  We live in a country where we have the freedom to do almost whatever we want. — including the opportunity to own and invest in real estate. In fact we have only reported foreclosures through October and the national total has already topped 1 million with two months left to report — way ahead of the 885,000 foreclosures reported for all of 2005. As a legitimate real estate investor, professional, or potential home buyer, the next Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a time we take to reflect on our lives and what we can do to make the world a better place in which to live.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Exceed 100K for Fifth Month
  
  But the 109,652 new foreclosure filings during the month still represented a 35 percent increase from December 2005 and marked the fifth consecutive month with a foreclosure total above 100,000, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Texas foreclosure activity increased 4 percent, helping the state reclaim the top spot from California in terms of total foreclosures. U.S. foreclosure activity dropped 9 percent in December, backing down from a November foreclosure total that was the year’s highest.
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• Greed and Deceit Get Their Comeuppance in Any Cycle
  
  It’s a recurring theme in the real estate industry; mostly visible in the financial sector, although one would have to be a fool to believe it didn’t take place in every aspect of the real estate transaction. Although these two events took place during different real estate cycles and economies, comeuppance was similarly swift for both. Greed and deceit. And let’s not forget all the news stories out there about mortgage and foreclosure scams these days.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  And for subscribers to RealtyTrac — albeit investors, real estate agents or potential homebuyers — Ohio is a land of opportunity right now. According to the RealtyTrac Q2 2006 Foreclosure Market Report , the total number of foreclosures in Ohio actually declined by 30 percent from Q1 2006, although still up 85 percent from Q2 2005. In the meantime, the crop is plentiful in Ohio for RealtyTrac subscribers looking to purchase a It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. One example — Rep.
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• Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
  
  Our forecast calls for housing prices to decline around 5 percent before relatively strong job growth helps to bring about a recovery by late 2008.” According to their latest figures, Doti noted that price appreciation on resale housing peaked during the third quarter of 2005 at 14.2 With the housing market languishing on the downslide, Doti expects export sales — which are forecasted to increase by almost $100 billion in both The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.,
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• Dealing With the Affordability Quandry
  
  In addition to real estate investors and agents, the RealtyTrac website can be a great help to first-time homebuyers looking for a way to get into a home at a price that is more affordable, even in areas where prices seem out of reach for most people. As of Q2 2006 the index stood at 23 percent, down from 26 percent for the previous quarter and 30 percent for Q2 2005. Affordability is the key here. Especially in light of the new consumer index just announced by the California Association of REALTORS®.
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• Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
  
  percent in 2005. While this negative savings rate may be helping to sustain the country’s growing economy in the short term by infusing the economy with cash, it could also be draining the rainy day funds of many homeowners, leaving them more susceptible to foreclosure. More tips on preventing foreclosure. Posted 02-05-2007 1:02 PM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007.
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• Extreme' Dream Gone Bust
  
  ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition came to the rescue, demolishing the Harper’s old run down home with a faulty septic tank and replacing it with a 5,300 square-foot, two-story dream home in Lake City, Georgia. When the show first aired back on February 20, 2005, the home was the largest ever built in a week by the show. The home, built with the help of 1,800 volunteers and Atlanta-based Beazer Homes, is now scheduled for public foreclosure auction on August 5. Three years ago Patricia and Milton Harper received a gift courtesy of reality television. As
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• 2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
  
  Home buyers who utilized these loans to finance a home purchase in either 2005 or 2006 are probably at the greatest risk of going into foreclosure if they cannot afford a mortgage payment that could be 25-50 percent higher when the interest rate adjusts upwards. million properties entering foreclosure nationwide during 2006 — a large increase from 2005 when approximately 850,000 properties went into foreclosure. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (better known as Freddie Mac) has just released the results of its 23rd Annual Adjustable-Rate Mortgage survey of prime loans.
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